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first step:
recover highlights with exposure compensation and highlight compression sliders (check the highlight reconstrunction button )
second step:
brightness/ contrast sliders ( but the curves tool is way more powerful)
third step:
white balance with the eye dropper
last step:
sharpen
The output of macOS Filmulator into RawTherapee. (The reds purples pinks violets and oranges were rather artifacty so I gutted them)
Gave it also a try with DT:
Couldn’t restore the highlights.
merci @BayerSe 4 ice & pips with ice picks {blood, ice, vodka, 1 anchovie}
photoflow (using channel mixer & DR and TM)
gimp and g’mic (a bit if a blotchi work, anyway…)
pola{r} detail 
cheers and a good weekend for y’all =)
PS
forgot to say that this reminded me of the terror
Someone turned the thermostat up too high and messed with the laws of physics too.
Here is my try. Personally I prefer the BW version.
Thanks for sharing.
Rawtherapee → highlights recovery
Darktable → tone mapping
Gimp → wavelet sharpening
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you took the poop out of my skeleton 
… the words out of me mouth. Guess it’ll be roasted bird for dinner
…if only someone didn’t shove some circuits inside the carcass.
The unadorned image had vignetting in the corners, so I started with a crop. I didn’t mess with white balance because the bluish tint gives the feeling of “Cold”…
A curve was the next operation; blacks weren’t at black, so I scooched the lower control point over to put them near 0. I put in another couple of points to make an “s” curve to increase the contrast.
I sharpened the full-sized image (I don’t normally do this) to put some “sparkle” in the ice.
A bit of saturation because I love the blue colors that come out of ice.
Resize for posting and my standard post-resize minimal sharpen.
Result:
Then, because I thought there might be a better way to put depth in the composition, a crop:
Nice raw!
In trying to simplify my workflow above, I go with @msd way of recovering highlights in DT, and his inverted graduated density to pop the foreground. I also replaced wavelet sharpening in gimp by the highpass filter. So, I’m only DT now.
20180829-171901.rw2.xmp (27.9 KB)
Nice crop.
@ggbutcher I didn’t like how the crop chopped off the flock of birds. See @Thomas_Do’s for comparison.
Ack, missed that. Good catch…
Great idea - I think the scenery makes for an excellent B&W image.
Haven’t been here for quite some time, so I thought I’d do a playraw again.
Basics done in RT:
Then painted in some subtle highlights and shadows in Gimp, just to add a little shine:
. Here an other version:
